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[Portrait of a young couple]
Creator
Cornelius Jabez HughesBritish Photographer · 1819–1884
All works by this person →An early student of phrenology and related pseudo-scientific subjects, Cornelius Jabez Hughes was an assistant to John Jabez Edwin Mayall in London. After 1847 he moved to Glasgow, where he opened his own successful studio. He became active in the Glasgow Photographic Society in the early 1850s; in 1855 he returned to London and bought Mayall's studio. Hughes later built the Regina House Studio in
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- about 1849
- Medium
- Hand-colored daguerreotype
- Culture
- British
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- ff77d745-eae0-4ac1-bc9e-62179e301d6d
From the Getty Museum record
The man is holding a book with finger inside it; woman in curls wearing a headpiece and much jewelry. Both seated.
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